A History of Australia, Volume 4This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
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... Australia , in parts of South Australia , and in that red sand - plain country on the coast of Western Australia from Northampton to Carnarvon , a broken - down chimney - stack here , the shell of a house , a woody rose - bush and ...
... Australia , in parts of South Australia , and in that red sand - plain country on the coast of Western Australia from Northampton to Carnarvon , a broken - down chimney - stack here , the shell of a house , a woody rose - bush and ...
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... Australia belonged to the ' clowns , liars and charlatans ' . Behind the vast Australian gloom , behind that spiritual silence which had unnerved Harpur , he detected in nature in Australia the ' grounds for a finer hope ' and ' the ...
... Australia belonged to the ' clowns , liars and charlatans ' . Behind the vast Australian gloom , behind that spiritual silence which had unnerved Harpur , he detected in nature in Australia the ' grounds for a finer hope ' and ' the ...
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... Australia . It was here in Australia that the battle against nature's brutal laws would be fought out . It was here in Australia that human society would develop itself and that the yet unanswered riddles of the sphinx would be finally ...
... Australia . It was here in Australia that the battle against nature's brutal laws would be fought out . It was here in Australia that human society would develop itself and that the yet unanswered riddles of the sphinx would be finally ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
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